About

Known credits:
33
Birthday:
1906-04-28
Place of birth:
Paris, France
Website:
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Pierre Boileau

Overview

Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated. A number of their works were adapted for film, including the renowned Les Diaboliques, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. They also notably adapted the novel Les yeux sans visage by Jean Redon into the horror film known in English as Eyes Without a Face (1960).

Individually, Boileau and Narcejac were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures, awarded each year to the best work of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery. They met in 1948 at the award dinner for Narcejac, to which Boileau — as a prior winner — had also been invited. Their collaboration began soon after, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisation, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee ("Ellery Queen").

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Known for

Writing
2023 Goodbye Vinyle Writing Novel 59
Average
2012 Bad Seeds Writing Novel 58
Average
2011 Les Amants naufragés Writing Writer 59
Average
2005 Černá karta Writing Novel 59
Average
1996 Les Victimes Writing Novel 59
Average
1996 Diabolique Writing Novel 57
Average
1993 House of Secrets Writing Novel 59
Average
1991 Body Parts Writing Novel 58
Average
1990 Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden Writing Novel 59
Average
1986 Rückfahrt in den Tod Writing Novel N/A
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1986 Letters to an Unknown Lover Writing Novel 58
Average
1979 The Illusion Writing Original Story 58
Average
1978 Ztrácím tě, lásko Writing Novel N/A
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1974 Reflections of Murder Writing Novel 59
Average
1969 Misdeal Writing Novel 58
Average
1965 Les Survivants Writing Writer N/A
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1962 Crime Does Not Pay Writing Scenario Writer 59
Average
1962 Where the Truth Lies Writing Novel 59
Average
1961 Spotlight on a Murderer Writing Writer 59
Average
1960 Faces in the Dark Writing Novel 59
Average
1960 The Magician Writing Writer 59
Average
1960 Murder at 45 R.P.M. Writing Novel 59
Average
1960 Eyes Without a Face Writing Screenplay 68
Fair
1960 Eyes Without a Face Writing Adaptation 68
Fair
1959 Witness in the City Writing Novel 59
Average
1959 Twelve Hours by the Clock Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1959 Meurtre au ralenti Writing Writer N/A
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1958 Vertigo Writing Novel 80
Very good
1957 S.O.S. Noronha Writing Writer N/A
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1957 Demoniac Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1957 Demoniac Writing Novel 59
Average
1955 Diabolique Writing Novel 72
Good
Vertigo Writing Novel N/A
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